Imagining the Arabs : Arab identity and the rise of Islam / Peter Webb

By:

Webb, Peter [author]

Publication details: Edinburgh University Press, 2017 Edinburgh, UK : Description: ix, 403 pages ; 25 cmISBN:

9781474426435

Other title:

Arab identity and the rise of Islam

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DDC classification:

23 320.5409174927 W381I

Contents:

Introduction -- Part One. The Rise of Arab Communities. Imagining ancients Arabs : sources and controversies -- Pre-Islamic 'Arabless-ness' : Arabian identities -- Arabness from the Qur'an to an Ethos -- Part Two. The changing faces of Arabness in early Islam. Interpreting Arabs : defining their name and constructing their family -- Arabs as a people and arabness as an Idea: 750-900 CE -- Philologists, 'Bedouinisation' and the 'Archetypal Arab' after the mid-third/ninth century -- Imagining and reimaging the Arabs : Conclusions.

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Introduction --
Part One. The Rise of Arab Communities. Imagining ancients Arabs : sources and controversies --
Pre-Islamic 'Arabless-ness' : Arabian identities --
Arabness from the Qur'an to an Ethos --
Part Two. The changing faces of Arabness in early Islam. Interpreting Arabs : defining their name and constructing their family --
Arabs as a people and arabness as an Idea: 750-900 CE --
Philologists, 'Bedouinisation' and the 'Archetypal Arab' after the mid-third/ninth century --
Imagining and reimaging the Arabs : Conclusions.

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